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=Faunce, David Worcester.= _Ms._, 1829- ----. A Baptist minister of New
England. Words and Works of Jesus; Words and Acts of the Apostles; The
Christian in the World; A Young Man’s Difficulties with his Bible; The
Resurrection in Nature and Revelation. _Ran._
=Fawcett, Edgar.= _N. Y._, 1847-1904. A New York author who wrote
much fiction, more or less ephemeral in character, but whose work as
a poet takes far higher rank, some of it in the realm of pure fancy
standing quite alone in excellence. His novels include An Ambitious
Woman; Fabian Dimitry; A Gentleman of Leisure; A Hopeless Case; Olivia
Delaplaine; Asses’ Ears; A New York Family; The Confessions of Claude;
Purple and Fine Linen; A Mild Barbarian; The House at High Bridge;
Social Silhouettes; The Adventures of a Widow; Tinkling Cymbals;
Rutherford; Douglas Duane; Ellen Story; A Demoralizing Marriage; A
Man’s Will; Miriam Balestier. In verse he published Short Poems for
Short People; The Buntling Ball, a satire; Poems of Fantasy and
Passion; Romance and Revery; Song and Story; Songs of Doubt and Dream;
The New King Arthur. He wrote also Agnosticism, and Other Essays. _Ap.
Cas. Fu. Hou. Lip. Ra._
=Fay, Amy.= _La._, 1844- ----. A Chicago musician. Music Study in
Germany. _Mg._
=Fay, Theodore Sedgwick.= _N. Y._, 1807-1898. A writer who belonged to
the generation of literary New Yorkers which included Halleck, Willis,
and Bryant. He was secretary of legation at Berlin, 1837-53; minister
to Switzerland, 1853-61; and thereafter lived in Berlin. The novel
Norman Leslie is his best known work. Others are, Dreams and Reveries
of a Quiet Man; The Minute Book, a record of travel; Countess Ida;
Hoboken, a romance of New York; Sidney Clifton; Robert Rueful; Ulric,
a volume of verse; Views of Christianity; Great Outlines of Geography;
History of Switzerland; History of the Three Germanys. _Bar._
=Fearing, Lilian Blanche.= _Ia._, 1863-1901. A lawyer of Chicago.
The Sleeping World and Other Poems; In the City by the Lake (verse);
Roberta. _Ke._
=Fellows, John.= _Ms._, 1760-1844. The Veil Removed; Mysteries of Free
Masonry.
=Felt, Joseph Barlow.= _Ms._, 1789-1869. A Congregational minister of
Massachusetts who, after retiring from the ministry, devoted himself
to antiquarian research at Salem. Annals of Salem; History of Ipswich,
Essex, and Hamilton; Historical Account of Massachusetts Currency;
Memoirs of Hugh Peters; The Customs of New England; Ecclesiastical
History of New England, include the most of his writings.
=Felton, Cornelius Conway.= _Ms._, 1807-1862. A Greek scholar of
eminence who was president of Harvard College, 1860-62. Besides his
many translations from the Greek, among which The Clouds and The Birds
of Aristophanes are the most noteworthy, he published Selections from
Modern Greek Writers, with Notes; Familiar Letters from Europe; Greece,
Ancient and Modern. _Hou._
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